Dry picking at Harju Brothers
Bogs

Middleboro, Massachusetts

Larry and Jane Harju, who
are our neighbors, have truly showcase bogs next to and behind their
home. They are always
carefully tended and are as weed-free as cranberry bogs can be.
It's been some six years since these bogs were dry harvested. I was
driving by earlier today and saw the crew hard at work dry picking, and Jane
equally hard at work at the grill
preparing the lunchtime barbeque. I drove home to get my camera, and here are the results.

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Larry Harju

Why bother with a helicopter
when you can hire members of the
Bridgewater-Raynham wrestling team
for the back-breaking job of lifting the heavy
berry sacks off the bogs?